Stroke diagnosis using the Facial Action Coding System (FACS): an interview with Dinesh Kumar

Dinesh Kumar (left) is a Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) and a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health. He serves on several Australian and international committees for Biomedical Engineering and is a member of the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA) and Ministry of Health (Australia) for medical devices. Facial palsy, abnormal speech and reduced muscle response are exhibited by 80% of stroke patients. In this interview, Dinesh details how it could be possible to overcome the limitations of identifying stroke through a smartphone-based solution. The device the team are developing, would ideally be in the...